Both ladies are media savvy — they have perfected their sound bites. Their lives are not all that dissimilar — they make headlines for the wrong reasons.

God they say is in the detail and he who has mastered the art of focusing on the minutest details, has mastered the art of blocking out the unpleasant...

It is possible the angry young men and well-dressed women in Victoria Beckham sunglasses in Tehran - the only place where Mousavi outpolled Ahmadinejad - have different ideas.

The Left emerged out of the chaos and violence that fractured Bengal; as it dissipates, will the vacuum be filled by violence? It is tempting to see the immediate future as a mirror image, with variations, of the 1960s.

Change will not occur with the speed and thoroughness that is deemed ideal unless we accelerate the process through forceful and specific interventions.

The Nikkei Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by IHS Markit, plunged to 27.4 last month from March's 51.8, by far its lowest since the survey began in March 2005 and its first time below the 50-mark separating growth from contraction in nearly three years.

The percentage of people believing this to be true was especially high in Andhra Pradesh, followed by Telangana and Tamil Nadu. It was least in Kerala, followed by Punjab and Delhi. The survey also showed that about 30% of people believe that the current lockdowns will eradicate coronavirus.

For the manufacturing sector - domestic demand, expensive credit, cash-strapped MSMEs, high cost of setting-up and automation are the big areas of concern. Industry veterans suggest that the only way to revive demand is for the government to keep to its spending targets and streamline policies and processes.

The virus has brought the Indian economy to new low after new low over the past six weeks.

The agency says prospects of further reforms to support business have diminished.

Analysts across the board have been warning about a heavy economic toll due to the pandemic. Analysts at domestic rating agency Icra have warned of a contraction in the GDP in FY21. The agency has estimated a minus two per cent growth for the country. ​​Japanese brokerage Nomura warned of a likely downgrade of the sovereign.

Every company wants to give its developers the right training. One of the easiest (and quite logical) ways to do this to make sure the training is on the right technologies. Nobody wants to miss out on their day-to-day project work to learn about outdated languages or libraries. Worse yet is having to take training […]

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We have no shortage of sayings about the primacy of money. “Money talks”. “Show me the money”. “Put your money where your mouth is”. But we sometimes overestimate money’s importance relative to many other things. This can be especially true when it comes to working and choosing which job to take. When it comes to […]

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In 2018, industry research firm Gartner made a rather disheartening prediction: Some 85 percent of AI projects are doomed to failure. Wow. That’s a lot. Keep that number at the back of your mind. Now consider how many questions an organization must answer when it comes to this kind of project implementation: Do we have […]

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Tech companies aren’t the only organizations actively looking for experienced talent in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Leaders across a mélange of industries like financial services and various types of consulting are strategically sourcing top technical talent to power future business goals – which means competition is stiff for technologists with […]

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As far as the general marketplace is concerned, Uber and Lyft are competitors who do the exact same thing. But for technologists, the two companies approach development, infrastructure and technology in distinctly different ways. Their strategies provide a series of lessons for organizations on why technology deserves a personalized touch when it comes to driving […]

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In a recent issue of my newsletter, I briefly discussed many (if not all?) of the different ways you can retrieve a DOM element's dimensions via JavaScript.

These include getBoundingClientRect()'s width and height properties, offsetWidth and offsetHeight, window.getComputedStyle(), the document.styleSheets object, and scrollWidth and scrollHeight.

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I probably don’t need to tell you that if you want to make it easier marketing yourself as a strong front-end web developer, it's important to learn React. No, it’s not absolutely crucial, nor is it required. But React is undoubtedly the most important UI library in the front-end landscape in 2019 and it’s not going away anytime soon.

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You probably know that email newsletters can be one of the most effective methods of reaching people who want to connect with your organization or brand. An email newsletter template can help you jumpstart the process with a semi-custom design with a visual dynamic that will keep subscribers clicking. If you’ve never used an email […]